In this episode, we have a number of guests, including Jeff Park from the Alberta Parents Union, Kinga Zentner and Celeste Mint from the Guided Journeys Foundation, and Tony Bernardo from the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. We also talk about the recent climate emergency declaration by Mayor Jodie Gondek, and why we should all be going barefoot.
00:15:11.740the tech area is outside of mine. There'll be some degree of tracking of it. I mean, we need
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00:15:37.000read certain stories and from which regions they came from and all of that sort of stuff. The data
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00:16:05.880what stories are they drawn to if we know an age demographic. All of these things,
00:16:09.760every business looks into this. I mean, the data is very, very valuable. So I mean, I don't really
00:16:15.220blame the businesses for going out to get it. But at the same time, you can't do it. You can't sneak
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00:16:55.280subscription and your viewership, which we appreciate. Jet Gorgon saying, don't forget,
00:16:59.340yesterday was vulva and vagina day. An MP in parliament said so. Yes, I saw that. I retweeted0.99
00:17:05.240that video because i couldn't even believe it when i saw it on twitter yesterday and she stood
00:17:09.020up and that's what it's all about uh yesterday was the day to get up and celebrate vulvas and0.99
00:17:14.360vaginas uh good on them i guess there should be nothing shameful about having a vulva or vagina0.99
00:17:19.400but i mean i don't know if we need a member of parliament to stand up and and declare that we0.99
00:17:23.340all celebrate it i believe larry flint has been celebrating it excellently on the pages of hustler
00:17:27.700magazine since the 70s or 80s or so and now on the internet it's celebrated all over the place
00:17:33.580if you don't have your safe search turned off or on, but all the same, this is what our
00:17:38.800parliamentarians are doing. This is where our money is being spent. And this is the important
00:17:43.940things they want to address. I can't wait to see some of the other things they'll come up with in
00:17:49.960there. It's funny, you know, there's some of the comedy and things like that just seem to
00:17:54.160right themselves with what our elected members do in there. You know, meanwhile, they're
00:18:00.700we've got big issues going on. The authoritarian trend. I mean, I'm getting really,
00:18:09.400really distressed and disturbed with where our government's going. Every move they do
00:18:14.280is another move to infringe on our freedoms. I mean, they're fixated on it. They're fixated on
00:18:20.180it. They, you know, with the C7, that's, or S7, it's a Senate bill. And that's where they want
00:18:28.620to give customs agents the ability to actually search and rifle through your phones and laptops,
00:18:33.060your data, and get into it. That one's being fought out in Parliament. C-11, C-18, those are both
00:18:37.660digital bills, again, which want to control what you can see, what you can communicate, what media
00:18:42.860outlets are official, which aren't. Control, control, control. Of course, the firearm seizure,
00:18:48.260handguns, they're after them. They're taking them. That's their next push. Vaccine mandates,
00:18:54.060as we spoke of, they won't get dropped. They will not back off on this. They're fixated on it.0.86
00:18:58.620There's no scientific basis, there's no medical evidence, there's no good reason for the federal government to maintain these vaccine mandates.
00:19:05.440But they won't stop, they won't back off on it.
00:19:09.740This government is, well, I mean, what was the other article?
00:19:14.720Mike Thomas called him, Trudeau, a creepy authoritarian.
00:19:18.360Yeah, I think it's a fantastic description.1.00
00:19:21.680And meanwhile, they do their other things, you know, hey squirrel, it's vagina and vulva day.1.00
00:19:26.720while we seize all your property and firearms.0.98
00:19:30.020This is a very distressing place we're in.
00:19:46.420we have to tear it down and rebuild it.
00:19:51.940There has to be a successful independence movement somewhere.
00:19:54.600I don't know if we're in Quebec or Alberta.
00:19:55.720I don't know if it'll be 10 years or 20 years or next year, but there's no fixing this mess.
00:20:00.260There's no fixing this mess. The only question is how far we're going to slide before we get there.
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00:20:21.020Fair enough. Everything's open for discussion. That's what we're about.
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00:25:55.200But they're moving a little bit towards the right direction, very slowly and agonizingly.
00:26:00.820So I imagine maybe just after whenever the heck we get rid of Prime Minister Ding Dong there, we might be able to get some changes in.
00:26:08.040But when you look at what happened with the We Foundation and all that sort of thing and Aga Khan with his ongoing constant chronic ethics breaches,
00:26:15.680he's not going to want to have to pay any more than he has to before he gets out of there.
00:26:21.040But either way, surprisingly, you know, they seem to be shutting down every other effort.
00:26:26.040they did vote to embrace that bitter reform. So that's a little bit of good news.
00:26:32.660Let's see. My guest appears to be running late, so we'll just keep babbling until he arrives.
00:26:37.880That's all right. There's always lots to babble about. So let's see. Here we go again. You know,
00:26:43.820as we're getting these Senate hearings and things like that, we get a lot of stories on it. Dave
00:26:46.660writes those to put them up again just to keep, you know, plugging for our own business as well
00:26:51.980while we're at it, but it's true with all these Senate meetings and committee meetings. This is
00:26:56.560where the meat and potatoes really are in politics. And it's the boring stuff, but it's where they do
00:27:01.640stuff. And we've got to watch for it. So there's been a lot of follow-up on this convoy. And
00:27:06.360police force by police force, we've been seeing them all coming up saying, we didn't call for
00:27:14.060the Emergencies Act. The chief of lying there, the minister, Mendoncino, is constantly saying
00:27:20.060the police are the reason they wanted to bring in the Emergencies Act. And they can't find a
00:27:24.160police force anywhere in Canada. Another one came up recently said, no, it wasn't us. The RCMP said
00:27:29.180it wasn't them. And the Ottawa police said it wasn't them. And I think the OPP said it wasn't
00:27:32.720them. So I don't know if he's going to be able to find, you know, some distant police force
00:27:38.680somewhere to pretend and claim that they asked for it. So as we keep following up, there's just no
00:27:43.800justifying the imposition of the Emergencies Act. The government can't do that.
00:27:50.920Now they're determining that it was hard to quantify the harm.
00:34:58.540if you do, you've got to pay for it again. You've got to pay the grocery store closest to you and
00:35:02.940then pay again for a grocery store that will actually serve you and meet your needs. Everyone
00:35:07.900would think that was insane, but because it's the status quo in education, it's considered
00:35:14.220radical to violate it. Yeah, so you're looking at offering, you're promoting choice in education,
00:35:19.500then. I mean, we've got a few options right now, charter schools, and they're starting to grow and
00:35:23.740develop, but they've got a great deal of limitations. So you're looking to expand more
00:35:27.740of those alternatives yes more choices less limitations on those choices you know they're
00:35:32.460uh i mean it's like so alberta uh the only province in canada that allows charter schools
00:35:39.660and that's great uh but it it's like when we introduced them we were almost afraid they would
00:35:44.220be too successful they started out capped the total number of charter schools there no online
00:35:49.580charter schools no co-location between two charter schools it's very regulated yeah it's all this
00:35:56.460uh uh all these all these hurdles like we were too afraid they would be too successful and and
00:36:02.140that's that's so much of the uh choice in education it's almost almost afraid that it'll be too
00:36:07.580successful undermine uh uh and and uh undermine the the world-class public system when really
00:36:16.460it the we have a world-class system because of the choice and competition like in everything else
00:36:23.740competition drives quality and so even for the majority of kids that are never going to go to
00:36:28.940anything but a but a fully-ledded public school the quality is driven for them as well by those
00:36:34.860other options being there yeah and we're just seeing a lot of controversial subjects entering
00:36:39.420curriculums or getting into classrooms that not every parent is comfortable with and when they
00:36:43.820again they're their children essentially locked into one system you have no choice or direction
00:36:48.300towards what they're going to be learning i mean there's always going to be a core curriculum i
00:36:51.980imagine you have to have that but or core standards yes yes but with some
00:36:56.840choice parents could choose to put their children into facilities that might not
00:37:01.520be putting some of that other messaging out there sure kids are not one-size-fits-all
00:37:05.600education is not one-size-fits-all the idea that there would even be one one
00:37:10.640size fits all curriculum for four million Albertans is is is kind of crazy
00:37:16.520So what we need is for, and then if all we can do is change these things from the top down, then all we can do is have these super politicized fights where one side wins and one side licks their wounds and is going to get revenge the next time.
00:37:35.920And so the other option is pluralism and choice where, where we empower parents to go to whatever choices and the choices that succeed are the choices we'll see more of. And, and that's how, that's how we, we get in just like in every other thing, like buying groceries, how we get quality.
00:37:57.240Yeah, so I mean, one of the arguments against, and I'll throw that out there, it grinds against some people's, I mean, you're talking something along the lines of like a voucher system, that's the term that's used, the money's following a student. I think it's great. So but one of the things some parents get upset with is saying, well, if you're in a rural community, you don't have the local options, my child won't be able to attend that diverse variety of things. And those resources will be pulled away from our communities. And they feel it's unfair, and that their child is at a disadvantage. How can you address that?
00:38:25.800well so there are fewer options in rural areas because of regulation because because co-location
00:38:32.760because uh because these things are are difficult to start and maintain we don't have that problem
00:38:39.000so i mean look when the when the like it or load that when the government got out of the way and
00:38:45.400and cannabis shops were allowed to pop up they popped up all over rural and urban it didn't
00:38:50.200matter uh so in the same sense when when the government gets out of the way to allow education
00:38:56.600options to pop up you know uh india has supposedly a uh fully funded public system from the top down
00:39:06.280but what's really helped india do so well in education is they've they've got all these
00:39:12.280tremendously low-cost private schools all over in every little town uh and it's just because
00:39:17.320the government, even when they might have wanted to get in the way of that, have not been able to
00:39:22.380get in the way of it. So it's let a thousand flowers bloom. And that's the sort of thing
00:39:26.340in our rural areas, it's the same solution. And it's good. I mean, as I keep getting back to,
00:39:31.500I mean, they try to talk out of both sides of their mouths, the defenders of the status quo.
00:39:35.340I don't want to label everybody. There's some fantastic teachers and people within the unions
00:39:39.840even and so on. But like speaking for myself, I was a pain in the butt student, low marks,
00:39:46.040low marks. My parents finally outsourced it for some discipline and sent me to an all-boys school0.99
00:39:50.460in Seanigan Lake, BC. And, you know, lo and behold, in a discipline environment, my marks shot right
00:39:54.900up. But that's me. Another student might have responded terribly in that environment and done
00:40:00.420very poorly. And I mean, it's just that choice. It's that recognizing that there's differences,
00:40:05.900and some people are more inclined to different fields and different types of learnings than
00:40:10.000others. And, you know, I just, we're really doing our kids a disservice, I think, with a stubborn
00:40:14.100clinging to the centralized, you know, one-size-fits-all system.
00:40:18.980Absolutely. Absolutely. Because, again, as with everything else, we know that more options,
00:40:26.280more choices is the way forward with better quality. It's the idea that one education
00:40:36.700minister or one educrat in Edmonton can know what's best for my child better than I do is
00:40:45.100frankly insane to most parents which is why I thought it's important to get the parents organized
00:40:50.620around this because I think it's just natural to most parents to realize that there might be
00:40:58.300people more expert in curriculum development or pedagogy or any number of other things
00:41:02.620but there is no expert more expert in my four children except maybe my wife but i'd even argue
00:41:08.060that uh but but there is no one more expert in my children than than my children's parents so
00:41:16.620getting that much inside though uh with the system say where the funding was following the student
00:41:21.580would that apply then directly to homeschooling if parents choose that as well i mean that the
00:41:25.500resources coming into the household to choose to be able to do that yeah so there are there
00:41:30.620are some home educators that don't want that. They think that inevitably the money will come
00:41:36.460with more government control. We would obviously say that the solution there is to trust the
00:41:41.740parents and to not bring that. But I think that Alberta's model with funded and unfunded does
00:41:49.420make sense so that you have that option for home educators who are afraid of regulation following
00:41:57.100the money um that that we have the unfunded option uh for them but but yes absolutely the um look um
00:42:07.980just independent schools and uh and home education between uh 2008 and 2018 saved the alberta
00:42:16.380government 1.9 billion dollars so so look we can and and and the government is still so stingy with
00:42:23.900with that $850 they give to funded home educators.
00:42:27.500And it seems like there are almost no controls
00:42:30.320on the $30,000 they give per student to, say,
00:51:19.300So our first goal is to educate people about what palliative care is.
00:51:25.340Cause like you said, it's a subject that isn't talked about.
00:51:27.940So palliative care is specialized care given to people that have life limiting illnesses, and also to their families. So our goal is to provide the highest quality of end of life care for people that are on their dying journey.
00:51:49.860So the specialized care that's given involves multi aspects, it's holistic care. So it not only provides patients with comfort for their physical needs, but also their emotional and psychological and support to the families going through a grieving process after.
00:52:15.040Yeah. And so, I mean, facilities are limited. I imagine for people like, is there something
00:52:21.880of a backlog? I think the center that you're looking to expand is, is it going to have 10
00:52:25.760spaces within it? And it just sounds like a modest amount, even to begin with.
00:52:30.700Oh, I was just saying, so what kind of accommodations, I guess, are there in
00:52:38.680Alberta already, and how long are the lists potentially?
00:52:43.160So at this point, the nearest hospice to Lethbridge is in Okotoks. So there's population
00:52:50.120of about 300,000 people in Southern Alberta. And every one of us at some point is going to go
00:52:56.840through that phase of the end of life. So it's important that we start to look at that. Our
00:53:04.680population down here is becoming more elderly there's just so much there's such a value in
00:53:15.160having a place like this everybody deserves to have a the best quality of care while they're
00:53:23.400living and that's what the goal is is to provide that so to have that facility in southern alberta
00:53:32.360is huge yeah so so guided journeys is a registered charity uh but then is there any public health
00:53:40.760funding that goes towards uh hospices or is it uh fully kind of charitably funded and then
00:53:46.360through local fundraising absolutely there is options where we can go through alberta health
00:53:52.120to have patient care assistants in getting their portion covered what we're really trying to create
00:54:00.760is to bring our community together and have a 100% community run hospice. It takes a village to
00:54:08.520raise a child and we feel it's also going to take that same village to help that connection on going
00:54:14.760home and helping people walk through the death journey and the grief journey.
00:54:21.000Yeah, and it's for more than just the patient. As you said, it surrounds us for the family. I see
00:54:25.640I see one of our commenters had pointed out that she had done the palliative care at home when her husband passed.
00:54:31.420Now, I don't know if that was her choice in that matter, or perhaps for lack of other options of facilities,
00:54:36.900but does your organization provide resources, though, for people that may want to choose to care for a loved one at home at that point in their life,
00:54:44.080like aside from being an inpatient circumstance?
00:54:47.260There is a community palliative care team here that's just got tremendous staff.
00:54:54.080but the problem with every every person that I've dealt with I've been a palliative care nurse for
00:55:02.20015 years the first goal they say is to die at home but when the actual time of end-of-life care comes
00:55:09.980the caregiver hits a point where they need to be a spouse a child and that's where we come in
00:55:17.620is to provide that environment where it's like a home-like setting and we can provide so much
00:55:25.220comfort not just to the patient but also to the family. Absolutely we want them to be able to
00:55:31.140focus on the time that they have left together and continue building memories right up until the end
00:55:36.660and it really takes away when they have to look after the physical aspects of their loved one
00:55:41.940during their illness yeah and i mean proximity to family and loved ones is obviously very important
00:55:47.940with this especially if uh you know people by their peers or others might be mobility challenged
00:55:53.780or getting in later and as you said i was quite surprised actually that yeah with the province as
00:55:58.260large as ours and so many people in in left bridge fort mcleod and down south with okotoks being the
00:56:02.740closest uh center that that's there's definitely uh you need something more locally for sure and
00:56:10.340Kinga kind of touched on the community-based idea. What the Palliative Institute of Canada
00:56:16.820is looking at is called Compassionate Communities. Dying isn't just a medical issue, it's definitely
00:56:25.940a community issue. It impacts the community that you live in, it impacts the family,
00:56:31.540impacts your religious denomination, it impacts schools when you have children that are in school.
00:56:38.420that legacy and that life impacts every part of the community. So leaning towards a compassionate
00:56:48.580community is what the hospice is all about. And you mentioned the importance of family.
00:56:54.900A hospice provides all the amenities for a family to be there and be present with their loved one.
00:57:02.340Yes, I believe I read on the website, or at least with the proposed center you want,
00:57:05.940It would have facilities for overnight stays for family because again,
00:57:10.260I mean, you want to be as close as possible,
00:57:12.100as long as possible with somebody at that period.
00:57:14.260And you don't want to have to step out for the night and miss,
00:57:17.380I guess what would be the most important moment, I guess you could say.
00:57:23.780So staffing is another thing. Now, this is such a specialized area of care.
00:57:28.020I mean, there's only so many people, I guess,
00:57:29.540with the emotional strength to do something this, you know,
00:57:34.980personal and important. I would imagine having a brick and mortar local facility would help
00:57:40.900in building and training a core of staff to be able to manage this as well.
00:57:45.220Correct. And there's many educational opportunities for people to become certified
00:57:50.400in palliative care. It is very much a specialty type nursing. The most nursing
00:57:58.440is focused on life preserving with palliative care it's on providing comfort so it's you have
00:58:08.060to be a different mindset to be able to work in there and very compassionate so that training
00:58:14.900certainly is offered and there's so much interest in people that would like to do that type of care
00:58:23.360Great. So are you networked with other facilities throughout the province already or in other provinces?
00:58:29.900Or is this an independent sort of organization?
00:58:32.520We're completely independent, but we have worked very closely and have been very, very fortunate to be under the guidance of the Edmonton Hospice as well as Okotoks.
00:58:43.680They've been sharing just their startup journey and how the community is helping them provide the best service that they are providing in their communities.
00:58:52.820And they've been absolutely amazing to work with and just going above and beyond to help us get started and make sure that we're on the right path.
00:59:03.900And we also have connections with the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association.
00:59:09.120They've provided us with lots of guidelines.
00:59:10.880guidelines. The Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association also provides a lot of educational
00:59:18.520material and support material and the Palliative Institute of Canada and of Alberta are also
00:59:26.000focusing on the compassionate community hospice. And our community as well as soon as we went live
00:59:33.660just the amount of people that have reached out to us just their willingness to help and
00:59:37.380and wanting to, they're very eager to see this break ground and to get started and to start
00:59:44.400having patient care in our facility. It's been very overwhelming, the community support we've
00:59:49.680already received. Well, that's good to hear. And that's why, you know, I was glad to have you guys
00:59:53.940on because again, it's something so important and I'm as guilty as anybody. It's just a subject we
00:59:57.600often just don't want to talk about until we have to. We'll always have to. So, you know, we've just
01:00:03.580got to force that issue and bring it up and be proactive and get out there so that the community
01:00:08.600is responding. Well, we've got to bring it to them, I guess, is the thing. And the people
01:00:12.620realize that need. So what's the timeline for the hospice you're looking for to get rolling?
01:00:18.720Well, our goal is two years. It's a huge undertaking to get a facility of that size
01:00:25.400built. So yeah, we're fairly new and fairly motivated. We've got an amazingly strong
01:00:33.580team and very passionate team about doing this. So, yeah, we're hoping that things just continue
01:00:41.540to move forward here. Excellent. Well, I imagine you can only kind of do one project at a time
01:00:46.740in a sense, but I mean, would there be plans if this facility, you know, you're a foundation,
01:00:51.860you'll be established if this facility does well and is established that you would expand, perhaps
01:00:56.820look to opening facilities in other, you know, population centers that need them?
01:01:00.920I think one of the, once this one is established, the idea of having satellite areas out in other communities would certainly be an option, but getting this one established right now is the number one goal and go from there.
01:01:20.400Great. Well, where can, you know, people find information about your organization
01:01:28.080in taking part or potentially, you know, utilizing the services down the road?
01:01:31.920Absolutely. So we have our website, guidedjourneys.ca. We are on social media platforms,
01:01:40.880Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. So there's lots of ways to get a hold of us and get in touch with us
01:01:48.480as to how people can connect and help us get going excellent and i see nico uh pulled up our
01:01:55.440producer uh an event that's coming up i was going to ask you about that as well so you have a walk
01:01:59.760to remember 2022 that's coming up on june 5th that's a fundraising initiative yes that's one
01:02:06.640of our first fundraisers that we're going to do and it one of the purposes of doing it is to do
01:02:14.480an honor walk so people can walk in honor of loved ones that have passed away and that's
01:02:21.280pretty important to offer to the community that we certainly do hold their loved ones in our heart
01:02:27.600and want to acknowledge them and remember them and yeah so that's one of the purposes of the walk
01:02:34.880great and uh are there other events scheduled i imagine there'll be others coming but you might
01:02:38.720not have them set up yes absolutely we have our first annual gala that's going to take place at
01:02:43.600the Norlands on November the 26th of this year. So details will be announced after the walk on
01:02:50.320our website and our social media. Excellent. Well, I really appreciate the work you guys
01:02:55.600are doing. I really do. It's very important. As I said, whether we like it or not, we're all going
01:03:00.000to need that help at some time or another. And it takes some strong people to do it.
01:03:05.040So thank you very much for coming on the show and telling us about it today and the work you're
01:03:08.480you're doing to get that facility going down there. And I hope everything goes grandly and
01:03:13.620you get that up and running soon. Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Thank you for the
01:03:17.960opportunity to talk to you. Great. No, no problem at all. Thanks guys. And perhaps we'll talk again
01:03:22.860later. Thank you. So yes, that was Kinga Zintner and Celeste Mint of the Guided Journeys Foundation.
01:03:31.220And as you see there, they're doing some very important work and it's work. As I said, it's an
01:03:36.480issue. It's a subject I have a difficult time with. You know me, I'm the guy who babbles about
01:03:40.600everything and goes on about everything and talks at length and to no end, but it's a subject I
01:03:46.480dodge and it's an important one. You know, we want to deal with our loved ones. We want to set things
01:03:50.720up for ourselves. And there's clearly, I was quite surprised how few facilities there are when
01:03:56.460there's no hospice south of Ocotox. So check those guys out. It's again, Guided Journeys
01:04:03.400Foundation and see if you can lend them a hand or if, you know, their services might be something
01:04:09.040that you might, well, want to take advantage of it at some point down the road. So that was a good
01:04:16.020conversation there. Let me talk. Let's get on, I guess, back to our political bent, though. And
01:04:20.960again, if you want more information, you know, those guys up and see what you can do. Let's get
01:04:26.980back into some politics here. We actually got to speak about one of our sponsors, and I'm going to
01:04:30.960be talking to the head of that organization right away. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports
01:04:36.180Association. We have all this crazy stuff going on as I was ranting about with the firearms control,
01:04:42.160the laws, the things that are coming in. Well, one of the many roles that the CSSA does, I mean,
01:04:46.880they offer a lot of resources for firearm aficionados or people who want to get into
01:04:52.280utilizing firearms, collecting them, any of the things you want to do with them.
01:04:56.060You got to check them out. It's a, it's a, their name says it all. It's a shooting sports
01:05:00.260Association, things, as you can see, black powder rifles or target shooting, trap shooting, hunting,
01:05:05.720collecting, all of those things, all those things that the government, though, unfortunately, does
01:05:08.480not want you to have the right or ability to do. CSSA, not only do they share all those videos for
01:05:13.980safe utilization of firearms, that's a great one, you know, somebody training for the Olympics, I
01:05:17.600mean, so many things that are harmless and fantastic sports, but you got to protect them.
01:05:22.480And this association networks brings firearm owners together, and they lobby on your behalf.
01:05:28.300So get on there, check them out, cssa-cila.org.
01:05:32.600It's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.
01:05:35.620And, hey, if you want to hang on to your firearms, you've got to fight back
01:05:38.960because they're looking to take them away from you.
01:05:41.100So we'll talk to Tony a little while when he comes on.
01:08:08.680Yeah, so I guess, you know, we're not,
01:08:10.020I wouldn't imagine too many people are terribly surprised to see a move like this out of our federal government, but it's really shown their true colors.
01:08:18.980They're freezing handgun sales, bringing in a bunch of other legislation, and as I feel, it's probably just the beginning of a heck of a lot more.
01:08:27.340Well, it is, actually, and there's a heck of a lot more in that bill already now than just simply freezing handguns.
01:08:33.760There's a provision in the bill that will have a huge and dramatic effect on hunters and just casual shooters and farmers, and that is the bill that limits the magazines of long guns to five rounds.
01:08:48.760This is not the semi-automatic black rifles.
01:08:52.960This is all long guns, right down to .22 rimfires.
01:08:57.480Yeah, I was saying that earlier in the show.
01:08:59.260I've got a little .22 rimfire rifle in my house.
01:14:10.100And many of them come in from stolen police guns and stolen military guns.0.99
01:14:16.720They don't break any of that stuff down, probably because they don't know half of it.
01:14:21.360But when they actually look at the guns that originate with a firearm purchased from a lawful firearms owner in Canada, the amount is infinitesimal.
01:14:31.600In fact, I can remember back seven or eight years ago, ten years ago maybe, there was a lawful firearms owner that shot somebody in Toronto on the street, and it made national headlines because it was so rare.
01:14:57.940Yeah, and again, I mean, I think most law-abiding firearm owners would welcome more efforts to stop the smuggling, to hinder that, I mean, to get after the criminals.
01:15:08.880I mean, we're more than overjoyed to see that.
01:15:11.600We don't want to see people hurt, and we don't like seeing these illegal firearms giving everybody else a bad name.
01:15:16.940Well, that's right, and the lawful firearms owners traditionally have been very supportive of these measures.
01:15:23.940But honestly, I think that's coming to an end.
01:15:26.280I think many lawful firearms owners in this country have simply had enough and they're just going to turn their back on the system and walk away.
01:15:35.680This is very unfortunate because a society needs people to be lawful for the society to have order.
01:15:44.200And we've just got a couple of million people out there that have just said, OK, that's that's it.
01:15:49.380They've just they've crossed the red line and and that's it.
01:15:54.120Yeah, they create criminals. I remember in the 90s with the registry and what was it? C68 back then, I think. But I remember hosting an organization back then that was called the Law Abiding Unregistered Firearms Association. These were people who were content firearm owners, law abiding individuals, but they chose not to register. They're saying, you're forcing us to be criminals, but we will not register. We will not do it.
01:16:22.120I guess it was kind of an act of civil disobedience in a sense.
01:16:25.980And when the laws get too unfair, people just won't respect them any longer.
01:16:45.020They're going to illegally speed because it's a stupid and dumb thing to do on a superhighway.0.99
01:16:50.400but you know that this is what happens when you just put too many layers of the onion on top of0.98
01:16:57.760it and and this is what they're doing they're they're going now into areas that they should
01:17:02.620never ever tread into because the average farmer out there is not going to take his granddad's old
01:17:10.200cooey 22 into a gunsmith and spend three or four hundred dollars on having a magazine
01:17:18.860convert it he's not going to do it and then you know the the most popular 22 in the world
01:17:24.340is the ruger 1022 and there are god knows how many of them in canada but the reason they're
01:17:33.380called the 1022 is the magazine is a little block and in that little block it holds 10
01:17:39.380rounds of 22. There is no way to take that magazine that I'm aware of and permanently
01:17:47.060affix it to five rounds because the magazine itself is a block. It's a solid sealed block
01:17:55.960that you can't disassemble very easily. This isn't going to happen, Corey. It's not going to happen.
01:18:03.380Oh, and it's not making anybody any safer. That's the big frustration out of the whole thing. I mean,
01:18:07.380hey, if this actually worked, I'd be singing a different tune. If you could point to something
01:18:12.100and say, you know what, nobody will ever get shot again if we do this, or we'll reduce it
01:18:15.240dramatically, fine, but there's no evidence to say any of that. Well, sure. And to regress for
01:18:21.780a minute here into the handgun issue again, we're dealing with 1.1 million handguns, average value,
01:18:29.340a thousand bucks. Let's talk about here a billion dollars worth of Canadian's property
01:18:36.920that has just been made worthless. You can't sell it. You can't trade it. And when the person dies
01:18:44.780and that money goes into the estate of the individual, the government comes and takes the
01:18:51.940property. Remember, they don't take the money. It's not like the money is going to be used
01:18:58.040to offset our enormous tax burdens or to pay off our deficits or our debts, I should say.
01:19:06.200It's not like the money's used for that.
01:19:08.060They're literally burning a billion dollars worth of Canadians' money for absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
01:19:16.920This is criminal, absolutely criminal.
01:19:21.100And everybody in our community is just shaking their head and going, this makes no sense.
01:19:25.920it's not like the government's taking the property and paying us compensation. They're
01:19:30.840just stealing it. And worse, they're stealing it from our widows. They're stealing it from our1.00
01:19:35.700families. This is incredible. And that's a term I've used over and over on this show when it
01:19:40.420comes to things like this. If they take your property without your permission, I don't care
01:19:43.960how much they pay me. If they paid me $100,000 for $200.22, if you didn't have my permission to
01:19:49.580take it away, you were stealing it. It doesn't matter what you gave me later. That's not the
01:19:54.540the case. That's right. Getting to the harder part though, what do we do about it? How can we
01:19:59.620stop this move right now? We've got a government with an informal coalition that doesn't show any
01:20:05.900signs of backing down on anything. How can we push back on this? Well, you can push back in
01:20:12.820some ways. For example, things still have to go to committee in the Senate and the House.
01:20:19.660And in those committees, we'll be able to testify to the mistakes they're making vis-a-vis magazines and perhaps make some changes there.
01:20:27.660I do say perhaps because this government's never been particularly willing to listen to citizens.
01:20:35.320Remember, of course, that the Trudeau government not only has a majority, but with the addition of the new NDP liberals that they have out there, they have a super majority.
01:20:45.600And they could put through anything they want to put through.
01:20:48.760no matter what we think, no matter what we say.
01:25:47.940And if you can't stop it on an island, what are you going to do with the world's longest undefended border of the largest firearm zoning population in the world?
01:25:55.820yeah no it's it's it's just beyond the pale well we'll keep at it so i appreciate you coming on to
01:26:02.480talk to us today tony where can people find more information about uh the cssa okay go to cssa hyphen
01:26:09.980cila.org okay great and uh and outside of that they can just google the canadian shooting sports
01:26:17.160association and all those resources are there well thanks for keeping up uh fighting the good
01:26:22.440fight, Tony. And well, we never give up hope. We just got to keep pushing. Thanks for helping,
01:26:27.540Corey. All right. Thanks. That was, as I said, Tony Bernardo of the Canadian Shooting Sports
01:26:32.340Association. And as you guys know, on this show, you've heard me mention that organization a lot
01:26:36.180of times. And it's one of those sponsors I like talking about because, hey, they're good for us.
01:26:40.860They are standing up for us and we need to help them do it. You know, it takes participation
01:26:46.540in order to have an impact and be effective.